London Jazz Festival: Michel Portal
Jez Nelson presents French clarinettist and saxophonist Michel Portal performing with his Bailador band at the 2011 London Jazz Festival.
Jez Nelson presents French clarinettist and saxophonist Michel Portal with his Bailador band at the 2011 London Jazz Festival. Now 75, Portal has had a wide-ranging musical career that began in the European free jazz movement and has also taken in the classical avant-garde, award-winning film scores and, in recent years, a more mainstream duo project with accordionist Richard Galliano. His new ensemble performs music influenced by Latin and Eastern European folk sounds and reflecting the cutting-edge line-up of the band: Serbian pianist Bojan Z and Americans Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Scott Colley (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums).
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Michel Portal's Bailador, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 14 November 2011
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Line-up: Michel Portal (soprano & alto saxophones, bass clarinet), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Bojan Z (piano & Fender Rhodes), Scott Colley (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)
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Michel Portal's Bailador
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Composer: Michel Portal
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Kevin Le Gendre speaks to Michel Portal
Michel Portal's Bailador, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 14 November 2011
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Untitled
Line-up: Michel Portal (soprano & alto saxophones, bass clarinet), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Bojan Z (piano & Fender Rhodes), Scott Colley (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)
Michel Portal's Bailador
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Composer: Michel Portal
Michel Portal's Bailador
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鈥淎鈥 Trio
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track recorded at STEIM studios in 2007
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- Mon 23 Jan 2012 23:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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